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Bad faith and blank checks

SOME years ago, as the decline of American media became evident even among those not in the profession, friends and acquaintances began to ask two questions. Do journalists believe what

What’s behind talk of possible plea deal for Assange?

Top US officials are speaking at cross purposes when it comes to Julian Assange. What is really going on? Joe Lauria writes IT WAS a little more than perplexing. US secretary

More than meets the eye

THERE were several military coups in West Africa lately. Mostly in former French colonies, and in many ways ‘neo-colonies’ of France, that do arguably more harm to the Sahel countries

Solution caught in trilateral geopolitics

SINCE August 25, 2017, the Myanmar army began a large-scale violence against the Rohingyas in Rakhine State. Rohingya victims said that mobs joined the crackdown of the military junta, forcing

Mega risks threaten earth

THE Council for the Human Future, which is a dedicated group of intelligent well-informed people, has identified ten Mega Risks to Earth. As it happens, all ten risks are threatening

India: a reluctant BRICS traveller

MK Bhadrakumar says that BRICS is transforming into the most representative community in the world, with an expanding membership that interacts while bypassing western pressure INDIA became a beacon of hope

Headed towards internet censorship

IN JULY, the Jordanian government sparked a wave of controversy when it proposed a so-called cybercrime law, adopted by the parliament later that month with only minor revisions and ratified

Humanity imperilled

WHAT is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extra-terrestrial observer

Theft at British Museum

WHAT happens when the looters are looted? Perhaps that strange sense of satisfaction called justice, an offence cancelled by another. One therefore greets the realisation that the British Museum has

Kazi Nazrul’s death anniv today

Today is the 47th anniversary of the death of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The death anniversary of Nazrul, widely known as the rebel poet, is observed in Bangladesh on